svn commit: r197085 - in head: share/man/man4 sys/dev/syscons

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday 10 September 2009 10:07:25 pm Xin LI wrote:
> Author: delphij
> Date: Fri Sep 11 02:07:24 2009
> New Revision: 197085
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/197085
> 
> Log:
>   Extend the usage of sc(4)'s hint variable 'flag'.  Bit 0x80 now means
>   "set vesa mode" and higher 16bits of the flag would be the desired mode.
>   
>   One can now set, for instance, hint.sc.0.flags=0x01680180, which means
>   that the system should set VESA mode 0x168 upon boot.
>   
>   Submitted by:	paradox <ddkprog yahoo com>, swell k at gmail.com with
>   		some minor changes.

Ugh, I don't like overloading flags this much.  The historical usage of flags 
was due to userconfig only letting one set a single flags property for a 
given device.  Since moving to hints we now support free-form text 
properties.  I would much prefer this be implemented by 
setting 'hint.sc.0.vesa_mode=XXX' instead.

-- 
John Baldwin